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Opportunities and Challenges for the NSDL Program

Opportunities and Challenges for the NSDL Program. October 15, 2003 K20 and the National Agenda Internet 2 Fall Member Meeting Indianapolis. NSDL Vision. A Learning Environments and Resources Network for STEM Education (LEARNS)

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Opportunities and Challenges for the NSDL Program

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  1. Opportunities and Challenges for the NSDL Program October 15, 2003 K20 and the National Agenda Internet 2 Fall Member Meeting Indianapolis

  2. NSDL Vision A Learning Environments and Resources Network for STEM Education (LEARNS) • Designed to meet the needs of learners, in both individual and collaborative settings • Constructed to enable dynamic use of a broad array of materials for learning, primarily in digital format • Managed actively to promote reliable anytime - anywhere access to quality collections and services, available both within and without the network

  3. NSDL Initially Operational Late Fall, 2002 NSDL Program NSF,FY00-continuing DLI-2 Special Emphasis in UG Education FY98-99 Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2 (DLI-2) - NSF/DARPA/NASA/NLM/LOC/NEH with Smithsonian, National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), FY98 - continuing Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) - NSF/NASA/ARPA, FY94-97 NSDL Programmatic History

  4. Program Tracks • Core Integration: to coordinate a distributed alliance of resource collection and service providers, and to ensure reliable and extensible access to and usability of the resulting network of learning environments and resources • Collections: to aggregate and actively manage a subset of the digital library’s content within a coherent theme or specialty • Services: to increase the impact, reach, efficiency, and value of the digital library in its fully operational form • Targeted (Applied) Research: to have immediate impact on one or more of the other three tracks

  5. Project Characteristics • Current content domains include: various engineering disciplines, life sciences, physics, mathematical sciences, subdisciplines of geosciences, chemistry, materials science, anthropology, economics, demography, computer science, statistics, bioinformatics, linguistics, plus cross-disciplinary collections • Thematic projects growing: e.g. video collections, services for targeted audiences, etc. • Increased involvement of professional societies • Nascent private sector and publisher involvement • Numerous formal collaborative projects • 58 with explicit or secondary emphasis on pre-K to 12 sector

  6. Award Information D-Lib Magazine articles: • http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november02/zia/11zia.html (FY02 awards) • http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november01/zia/11zia.html (FY01 awards) • http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/zia/10zia.html (FY00 awards)

  7. FY03 Examples • Adding Value to the NSDL by Integrating it into Academic Libraries, University of California System - 0333710 • Integrating Digital Libraries and Traditional Libraries: A Model for Sustaining NSDL Collections, UNC at Wilmington - 0333628 • The OCKHAM Library Network, Integrating the NSDL into Traditional Library Services, Emory University - 0333601

  8. FY03 Examples (cont.) • techexplorer and MathDL: Robust Support for Dynamic Web-based Mathematics, Integre Technical Publishing Company, Inc. – 0333694 • Enhancing the Searching of Mathematics, Design Science, Inc. - 0333645 • Enabling Large Scale Coherency Among Mathematical Texts in the NSDL, Cornell University - 0333526

  9. FY03 Examples (cont.) • Exploratorium Online: Exhibit-Based Science Learning and Teaching Digital Library, Exploratorium - 0333722 • The Tree of Life Project: A Digital Library of Biodiversity Information, University of Arizona - 0333715 • A Digital Rich Media Library of Animal Behavior, Cornell University - 0332872

  10. Additional Information • http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/zia/03zia.html - a look at the “big picture” • http://www.nsdl.org - Visit the “Community” tab to access the Communications Portal for user and developer exchange and community building • http://www.nsdl.org

  11. Issues/Questions • New role for and relationship between librarians/media specialists and faculty (all levels) • Implications for museums and other informal learning venues? Extending the “presence” and experience. Incorporating artifacts into formal learning. • Implications for graduate programs – academic/professional

  12. Issues/Questions cont. • Role and nature of public/private partnerships • New twists on sustainability? • What about non-science, mathematics, engineering, and technology domains? • International collaborations

  13. Background Reports • Information Technology: Its Impact on Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology (NSF 98-82), April 18-20, 1996 • Developing a Digital National Library for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education, NRC workshop, August 7-8, 1997 • Report of the SMETE Library Workshop (NSF 99-112), July 21-23, 1998 • Serving the Needs of Pre-College Science and Mathematics Education: Impact of a Digital National Library on Teacher Education and Practice, NRC workshop, September 24-25, 1998 • Digital Libraries and Education Working Meeting, January 4-6, 1999 • Portal to the Future: A Digital Library for Earth System Education, workshop report, August 8-11, 1999 • The Digital Libraries Initiative: Update and Discussion, ASIS Bulletin, October, 1999

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